From the Control Tower
At 9pm EST on Wednesday evening an alert popped up on one of my social media timelines: Ronald Reagan "Washington National (DCA) is closed as of 2025-01-29 20:55 EST. The airport is expected to remain closed until 2025-01-30 23:00 EST." My first thought was that I had screwed up. I built those bots and the date handling is something that often flummoxes me, so seeing it closed for 24+ hours was, I assumed, an error I made somewhere in the code. Sadly, that was not the case.
Over the next 3ish hours the details continued to roll in about the massive tragedy that had occurred.
The NSTB is conducting its investigation, as it does. The recorders have been recovered from the plane and the helicopter. The analysis is ongoing. Lessons (hopefully) will be learned.
But it is still absolutely gutting.
(Some additional details from FR24)
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